Now, in order to use Word Online, you do need to already have an Office 365 account. Most office users have that account, but not all of them.

Word for Office 365 Word for Office 365 for Mac Word 2019 Word 2019 for Mac Word 2016 Word 2016 for Mac Word for Mac 2011 Word Online Word for iPad Word for iPhone Word for Android tablets Word for Android phones When someone shares a Word document with you, the email you receive includes a link that opens the document in your web browser: in Word Online. Select Edit Document > Edit in Browser.

If anyone else is working on the document, you'll see their presence and the changes they're making. We call this coauthoring, or real-time collaboration. From here, if you'd rather work in your Word app, select Edit in Word, near the top of the window. Want a guided tour? Download this, or type Collaborate in the search box in File > New in Word (works best in versions 2016 and later for Windows).

You'll still be coauthoring, as long as you're an Office 365 subscriber, using one of these versions of Word: • Word 2016 for Windows • Word 2016 for Mac • Word on a mobile device (Android, iOS, or Windows) If you're using an older version of Word, or if you're not a subscriber, you can still edit the document at the same time others are working in it, but you won't have real-time collaboration. To see others' changes and share yours, you'll have to save the document from time to time.

Turn Track Changes on On the Review tab, turn on Track Changes. Anytime someone changes the document, Word will show you where the changes are by displaying a line in the margin.

If you switch to All Markup view, you'll see changes inline and in balloons. Anytime someone adds a comment, it'll show up in a balloon. Show changes inline Word typically shows changes in balloons near the margin of your document.

If you want to see changes inline, on the Review tab, click Markup Options > Balloons > Show All Revisions Inline. Keep Track Changes on You can prevent others from turning off Track Changes by locking Track Changes on with a password. Important: Be sure to remember the password so you can turn Track Changes off when you’re ready to accept or reject the changes. Lock Track Changes with a password • On the Tools menu, click Protect Document.

• Under Protection, check Protect document for and click Tracked changes • Next to Password, type a password and click OK. • Re-enter your password and click OK. While tracked changes are locked, you can’t turn off change tracking, and you can’t accept or reject changes. Unlock Track Changes • To unlock tracked changes, on the Tools menu, click Protect Document. • Under Protection, uncheck Protect document for, and enter your password and click OK. After that, Track Changes will still be still on, but you'll be able to accept and reject changes.

Turn off Track Changes On the Review tab, turn off Track Changes. Word stops marking up new changes—but all of the changes that were already tracked will still be in the document. If you want to, you can.

Important: You can save to any Windows Live OneDrive or to a server that has Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. To work with SharePoint in Office for Mac, you have to have Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business 2011, Microsoft Office for Mac Academic 2011, or Microsoft Office for Mac Standard 2011. Turn tracked changes on or off When tracked changes are turned on, Word marks any changes that are made by any authors of the document.